Schools of science and physics replacing each other at a faster and faster rate. Just the nature of our world is constant revision, constant...negation of previous beliefs, and so...the whole world is a twist ending. Every week is a twist ending.

You’re training a new employee,' says Mrs. Clark, 'to take over your boring old job.' When you raise a child.

So if reality is all a spell, and you don't really want what you think you want... If you have no free will. You don't really know what you know. You don't really love who you only think you love. What do you have left to live for?

How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.

The only place where you can really surprise or shock the reader, or make someone laugh, is on the lower righthand corner - the very last panel - so as you turn the page, the payoff is in the upper lefthand panel. To pace every story so that there's a setup and a payoff at the page turn was a huge challenge; it's a part of the medium and you really have to learn what can be done in the medium.

Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.

As we grow older I always think, why didn't I do more when I was young, why didn't I risk more?